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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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148600
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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148620
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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148632
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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148620
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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148698
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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1485107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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148532
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
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